SUBSIM2 was conceived to automate the estimation of a large size of results about the impact of subsidy reforms on household well-being and government revenue. By default, these are reported by quintiles, but the user can indicate any other partition of population.

Lars Osberg makes the case in his paper that the major success story of Canadian social policy in the twentieth century has in fact been the reduction of poverty among senior citizens. According to Osberg, the poverty rate, defined with the poverty line measured as one-...